OXFORD STUDIES IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Editorial Board Joun Davis Luc pe HeuscH CaROLINE HUMPHREY EmILy MARTIN DAVID PARKIN PETER RIVIERE, NATIONALISM AND HYBRIDITY IN MONGOLIAOXFORD STUDIES IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology represents the work of authors, new and established, which will set the criteria of excellence in ethno- graphic description and innovation in analysis. The series serves as an essential source of information about the world and the discipline. Organizing Jainism in India and England Marcus Banks Sea Hunters of Indonesia: Fishers and Weavers of Lamalera R. H. Barnes Society and Exchange in Nias Andrew Beatty ‘The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community Janet Carsten Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh Katy Gardner Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal David N. Gellner and Declan Quigley ‘The Culture of Coincidence: Accident and Absolute Liability in Huli Laurence Goldman ‘The Female Bridegroom: A Comparative Study of Life-Crisis Rituals in South India and Sri Lanka ‘Anthony Good ‘Of Mixed Blood: Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia Peter Gow ‘The Archetypal Actions of Ritual: A Theory of Ritual Illustrated by the Jain Rite of Worship Caroline Humphrey and James Laidlaw Shamans and Flders: Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Daur Mongols Caroline Humphrey with Urgunge Onon ‘The People of the Alas Valley: A Study of an Ethnic Group of Northern Sumatra Akifumi Iwabuchi Nuer Prophets: A History of Prophecy from the Upper Nile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Douglas H. Johnson Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion: Yolngu of North-East Arnhem Land Jan Keen Riches and Renunciation: Religion, Economy, and Society among the Jains James Laidlaw ‘The Interpretation of Caste Declan Quigley The Pastoral Continuum: The Marginalization of Tradition in East Africa Paul Spencer The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey Martin Stokes Inside the Cuft: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea Harvey WhitehouseNATIONALISM AND HYBRIDITY IN MONGOLIA URADYN E. BULAG CLARENDON PRESS - OXFORD 1998